334000+ entries in 0.205s
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: How do you judge
the cost of making a Deepwater port and fulfilling
Teller's dream at
the same
time? You clease
the coastal hipster holes.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: How do you know
the hipster holes won't be cleansed for aesthetics?
ben_vulpes: best of best is
to live in incuntsequential hipster holes
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Where's your qntra submission on
this subject?
mircea_popescu: suffice it
to be said
that if you're looking for a place
to live in case of open hostilities with china (not
that
there's any likelyhood of
that),
texas way better
than chicago or new york.
mircea_popescu: none of
this is, of course, ever
to be reported in
the pravda.
mircea_popescu: the current "we will pay lizardhitler cronies" guy is going
to
try and renegotiate
that
thing
to add a clause
that
the base is "not
to be used militarily". as if it has any other fucking purpose
than ready bombardment of us/canada.
mircea_popescu: in other vaguely lulzy news : previous (socialist) argentine government "signed" a
treaty with china, allowing
them a fancy new "satellite" base in
the far south, right next
to
the pole.
assbot: GitHub - pasky/speedread: A simple
terminal-based open source Spritz-alike (per-word RSVP aligned on optimal reading points) ... (
http://bit.ly/1LqtKf4 )
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 23:39:11; asciilifeform: nasa is great
to learn from if you have 1) infinite budget 2)
tolerance for occasional catastrophe
BingoBoingo: 30 irv's prolly fine. 30 mega kerosene openings at
the bottom seems like invitation
to problem.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The 30 or so rockets in first stage was likely ill advised.
BingoBoingo: They exploded for good reason. Entropy
tends
to find a way.
BingoBoingo: Old NASA has Apollo 1 as its sole mega catastrophe (Apollo 13 counts instead as elegant save). New NASA lost
two space shuttles.
BingoBoingo: Not
too uncommon. At Carbondale one graduate class I
took on (John) Dewey was filled with Chinese students sent by
the Party
to get Pragmatized.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I saw, but I like
to scribble.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll
take a picture once I get it sorted. Some
things like SICP have yet
to be acquired.
BingoBoingo rearranging booksshelves, because seems like most practical way
to make reading list
jurov: now you have
to send me one share :)
jurov: BingoBoingo:
The Billion Dollar blimp which WAS
the victim
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i suppose
the problem of ages is whether cunt is mp-complete or merely mp-hard ?
mircea_popescu: glasses! let's see if
this makes alf say she has an expression! maybe he only digs intellectual chix
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 19:04:00; kakobrekla:
thinking anyone at google is even aware of bitbet is delusional.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:37:44; jurov: and
then it failed cuz must read /proc/net/tcp ?!
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:36:26; asciilifeform: nn works until it 'doesn't want
to', at which point - doesn't.
adlai just babysits
the watering hole and
the folks find
their way in... it's right across from
the stock exchange, people literally walk in and ask "didn't bitcoin die last year"
adlai: dude's illusory relevance
to bitcoin was looking for some in order
to polish
the
thing off; which is ironic, because it was quite polished already! unclear where
to insert coin.
adlai: mircea_popescu: only reason i ignore my unqualification
to comment on
this
topic is
that some dude showed up at
the local bitcoin wateringhole
to demo his luser-friendly stockfish interpreter
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:33:11; *: adlai would not be surprised if
there isn't [yet] a way
to
translate alphago's "learning"
to human go
terms
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:22:55; asciilifeform: mats: as i understand, 'alphago' is a corporate operation, with many folks involved, all over
the pay scale.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:15:15; asciilifeform: (did
this ever actually work...?)
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller notreally. it's just a dude
that expects computers
to be metaphysical objects not made of discrete parts.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: "In Internet slang, a luser (sometimes expanded
to local user; also luzer or luzzer) is a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nice epitaph for heroin addict. << Note
the shared self destructiveness of
the illnesses.
To be a "user" is
to plot a fatal course.
thestringpuller: "They shouldn't have
to care.
They're users.
The entire point of being a user is not having
to care."
mircea_popescu: i went because when we were all
together it was pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: i didn't go
to school every morning i knew
the other kids would show up because "i had
theorems
to prove"
adlai goes back
to slinging conses, because he's "not good enough
to sling dope"
mircea_popescu: that's
the fucking
thing
there. "some people have no
theorems
to prove ; most people have no friends
that'd know a proof"
adlai: if you're better at quantifying how much sense a market's making
to you,
than other
traders,
then you stand
to earn more, more often,
than
them.
adlai: on a long enough
timeline,
the survival rate for everycipher drops
to mostly
mircea_popescu: "making sense quite often" is like
the cipher
that mostly works lol
adlai: eh, markets make sense quite often,
trouble is milking out
the sense before
the market understands itself
mircea_popescu: ask newton if he more enjoyed his
time with
the euro jet set
that recognized
the lion by his claw ; or with
the domestic merchant class
that drove
the south sea bubble.
adlai: this is why markets are excellent...
they're
the dissertation committee
that never goes home
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:04:21; asciilifeform: it suggests
that erdos was right, most people 'have no
theorems
to prove',
the idiot social stotting game ~is~
the point of living,
to
them.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:03:19; asciilifeform:
that'd be a global plague, affecting all fat & comfortable folks everywhere ?
mircea_popescu: jurov "they don't succeed at making money, but
that's secondary -
they succeed at feeling like a
trader".
jurov: if you can't design yourself, don't
tell us it would be cheap
mircea_popescu: "we don't have iron, so we make swords of
the reeds we have" is not sense.
jurov: btw, your brain leaks,
too
mircea_popescu: the solution
to
these faux problems is always
the same, "don't want very much". which will make random offering perfectly fine.
mircea_popescu: you'll also not have easy, meaningless sex with random women
that you enjoy. and you won't be able
to eat from garbage cans and always find exactly what you wanted
to find in
there.
mircea_popescu: would you stop
trying
to support
this insane lifestyle of "i need laptop" ?
mircea_popescu: much like say a social worker would be "oh,
this solution doesn't provide work for enough social workers"